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ORANGE, ICED (another way)

Whisk the white of an egg to a firm froth, and mix with it eight ounces of pounded and sifted sugar; beat the mixture thoroughly for ten or fifteen minutes. Peel three or four large sound oranges; take away the white pith without breaking the skin of the fruit, put a double thread through each orange, which must be immersed singly in the sugar. Fasten the oranges by the thread to a long piece of stick, hang them in a very cool oven, and leave them until they are quite dry, but they must not be allowed to acquire any colour. Arrange the balls on a folded napkin, and garnish with springs of myrtle. Time, about one hour to dry. Probable cost of oranges, 1d. each. Sufficient for three or four persons.